[Levin]

By MATT O'BRIEN and PAUL WISEMAN
yesterday


Ask for a roast beef sandwich at an Arby’s drive-thru east of Los Angeles and you may be talking to Tori — an artificially intelligent voice assistant that will take your order and send it to the line cooks.

“It doesn’t call sick,” says Amir Siddiqi, whose family installed the AI voice at its Arby’s franchise this year in Ontario, California. “It doesn’t get corona. And the reliability of it is great.”

The pandemic didn’t just threaten Americans’ health when it slammed the U.S. in 2020 -- it may also have posed a long-term threat to many of their jobs.



Much more at: https://apnews.com/article/technology-bu...23881f77bd

[sclim]

in theory and to a large extend robots can take over many many jobs of human.
it is in the hand of governments to ensure that it is robots assist and not robots replace human.
if not no more consumer and wonder how economy cycle going to work.
some has advocated let robot do the work. tax then send free money to human for consumptions.

[Blasterlord2]

In China, the speed at which automation is being adopted is astonishing. I was told that in many Chinese restaurants there, robots are already being used as waiters/waitresses.